#erlikosaurus

[jbsdrawings]

A bunch of drawings of different theropod dinosaurs, mostly their skulls. I do these so I can have references physically on hand, and not have to look at pictures on a screen all the time. Hence drawing the skulls of Spinosaurus so I can exactly understand the difference between the two species.

For Erlikosaurus and Segnosaurs, I wanted to get an idea of what the head of latter might've looked in life. The only part its skull that paleontologists have found is the lower jaw.

With Giganotosaurs, in addition to understanding what parts of the skull is actually known, I included a few notes about possible soft tissue anatomy.

[caproptera]

[ildarotyrannus]

A work that I started back this spring, but finished quite recently. This is a Duonychus tsogtbaatari, a therizinosaurid from the Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian-Coniacian) Bayanshiree Formation (Mongolia). Its partial postcranial skeleton, which includes some vertebrae and ribs, partial shoulder and pelvic girdles, and both forelimbs, was found in 2012. The remains belonged to an immature individual weighing about 260 kilograms. A characteristic feature of the Duonychus is a didactyl manus with a strongly reduced third metacarpal bone (hence the generic name of the dinosaur). The keratinous sheath of one of the claws has been preserved, extending it by more than 40 percent. Mobility in the Duonychus' elbow joint was limited, as was the case with the first phalanx of the thumb, but the claw joint could bend almost perpendicular to the previous bone. The latter trait is not observed in other two-fingered theropods and, presumably, helped the animal to grab the branches of plants when feeding.

Adobe Photoshop, 2025.

[esmaniottoart]

Antediluvian Ark_Erlikosaurus. Digital, 2024.

Inspired by Joel Sartore's Photo Ark project and an old illustration of mine.

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[artvianblog]

Day 5: erlikosaurus andrewsi

[si-nequal-is]

Erlikosaurus andrewsi

[raingerr]

erlikosaurus! this little therizinosaur replaces pandas and since its face is too small to make expressions they instead have varying feather colors to signify their emotions!

the colors are orange for regular, red for aggressive, purple for playful, blue for worried, yellow for lazy, green for weak, and a fun albino variant instead of brown :)

[fishsfailureson]

Day 5- Erlikosaurus

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